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Squeak, Budgie! Sue Dymoke The fourth instalment of TheJohn Gohorry has been talking to a budgie called Pipsqueak. A parakeet fresh out of Paradise, Pipsqueak is a popinjay, a polyglot and a polymath. And somebody has definitely been rattling his cage. Following in the tradition of John Skelton's sixteenth century satire, Speak, Parrot! Pipsqueak offers an irreverent commentary on the follies and failures of our age from bird brains on twitter and tabloids parroting lies to politicians talking cuckoo.